Awful Auditions & Catastrophic Casting Stories On The Graham Norton Show

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   Oh, big, really exciting ones, and ones with Quentin Tarantino, and I think I was quite close to Anchorman.

   哦，大型的，非常令人兴奋的，还有和昆汀·塔伦蒂诺的，我觉得我差点就拿到《王牌播音员》的角色了。

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   Really weird things, but I always remember the funniest thing that my English American agent said.

   真的很奇怪的事情，但我总是记得我的英美经纪人说过的最有趣的话。

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   She's one of those people that talks like that, but she's British.

   她是那种说话像那样的人，但她是英国人。

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   And she said, "Darling, it went really well today," and I was like, "Ooh." She said, "The part is seventy percent not yours." That's my speaking.

   她说：“亲爱的，今天表现得真好，”然后我就说：“哦。”她说：“这个角色有百分之七十不是你的。”那是我的台词。

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   I had a big break where I got to go and have an audition with the head of Paramount Casting, so the whole Paramount Studio, the head of casting.

   我有一个重大突破，有机会去和派拉蒙选角主管试镜，整个派拉蒙工作室的选角主管。

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